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Penny Warwick

Synthesised Suppression

Set in 2086, this project imagines Nottingham’s Lace Market after ecological collapse and the rise of a patriarchal synthetic civilisation. Nature has been declared extinct, enabling a society built on synthetic food, materials, and controlled lifestyles. While men appear to flourish, the hidden consequence is widespread infertility. In resistance, women formed the Shadowed Sisterhood, fleeing the city to cultivate hidden gardens and live from natural resources guided by a moon-powered pendulum. Their self-sufficient lifestyle protects them from synthetic health defects, making their fertility a weaponised asset. Tracked through the regeneration of soil and biomass they leave behind, the Sisterhood are forced to seek permanent refuge within the abandoned Fletcher Gate Car Park.

School of Architecture, Design & Built Environment
Nottingham Trent University
50 Shakespeare Street
Nottingham
NG1 4FQ

0115 941 8418

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